Breaking Up With "League of Legends."

Hi everybody, I’m Kevin and I have a problem with games. (Muffled chorus: Hi Kevin.) I’ve uninstalled Sid Meier’s Alpha Centauri because I stopped doing anything else.  I’d sit down to play at my desk for fifteen minutes and then

The Art of Storytelling

Roger Ebert said, loosely, that no one has ever written a video game narrative that anyone will remember in fifty years. And I get the feeling he’s right. Narrative in video games has had a long, curious history; I’m not

What Goes Up, Can't Go Down

Or: Why the Microsoft Kinect and the Playstation Move are doomed to fail* Update 1: I’ve realized I needed to make the definition of what ‘fail’ meant more explicit. In this case, ‘fail’ refers to catering to the non-gamer market.

A Link to the Twilight Princess

This article contain spoilers for: Terminator (movie) Back to the Future (movie) The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time The Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess The goal of this article is not to establish